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There is a lot of buzz on the internet right now around diversity, equity, and inclusion in video games. But are the games coming out even that "diverse"? And if there are more diverse representations in video games.... are there potential BENEFITS for our brains in engaging with stories that don't look exactly like ours?
Note: representation and diversity in media is a very complex topic. I am sure I will talk about it more in the future, but please know that this is scratching the surface of that topic, and there may be pieces that I missed in interest of giving a better 'overview'. Please feel free to let me know in the comments if there are more specific areas that might be good to delve into for a deeper dive!
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@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

Addressing a few common themes from these comments: - yes, representation and diversity can be done poorly and have a distinct vibe of "tokenism" or "being forced" when it is done poorly. However, the majority of comments I see on this are not critiquing stories and how they represent characters-- instead it's just "they're present and I don't like it", which many of y'all in the comments have played out again and again. - if you're mad bc my hair is a bright color, you might need to chill. It does not affect you. - re: "Yasuke was a retainer not a samurai": all samurai were retainers. "Retainer" just meant that samurai were PAID to fight by local nobility (daimyo), not that they were some secret second category of samurai (as I recall there were some hierarchies within samurai societies but they had more to do with "you're the son of so and so" or "this dude has never lost a fight" than "retainers vs. not retainers".) Don't challenge a neurodivergent writer with an interest in history who read a book about samurai at 16 and then hyperfixated on learning everything about them for 6 months :P - if you hate this, you don't have to leave a comment to let me know that. It will populate more of my videos and videos like it on your feed. Or do, I'll take the free engagement if you insist on giving it :)

@connornewman75 23 дня назад

@emmjaygames it more seems like you're willing to make an ideological argument rather than make an honest attempt at why people would be annoyed at what is clearly controversy to drive sales. You're just being intellectually dishonest in general

@jtjames79 22 дня назад

Yes, we want everyone to see just how prejudiced you are. Lets raise this engagement.

@connornewman75 22 дня назад

@@jtjames79 k

@Grimm_Flame 22 дня назад

The whole Yasuke thing could be completely side-stepped if they just made Naoe the main character they showed in most promotional material and just showed him as an alternative playable character, But instead it feels like its the opposite. (Which granted may be the journalists fault but still.) Either way it's gonna come out and play like shit anyways. (Like all AC Games after unity.) So why are people still arguing about a game that won't do anything groundbreaking and will probably be forgotten after a month. Just play Nioh 1&2 since Yasuke is cooler there anyways.

@Sunnysideanyway 22 дня назад

@@jtjames79 Prejudiced??? What???

@Dragon_Lair 24 дня назад

Diversity, in and of itself, accomplishes nothing. It is a tool of narrative in gaming, movies and stories and can be great for expanding the setting. When overdone it causes massive cognitive dissonance among the audience and can ruin enjoyment of a product. It also doesn’t help when those preaching “inclusivity” use racial and sex-based charged language in an exclusive manner such as “if you are a white man then this is not made for you” and then blame white men for not showing up. When that happens, as has been happening in AAA games and Hollywood then it isn’t about being diverse and inclusive but about being racist, sexiest and exclusive.

@Alfonso88279 23 дня назад

Diversity in and of itself accomplishes a lot. That's the key for success in incredibly huge series like Dungeons and dragons. It helps people spread the horizons of their expectations, to assimilate new/different ideas, even just by finding different kinds of people in the story. Diversity also represents reality more accurately in almost any context, historical or geographic, and it's the key not just for entertainment. It's the key for our survival as a cvilization and democracy.

@Dragon_Lair 23 дня назад

@@Alfonso88279 Diversity accomplishes nothing more than existing. It's neither good nor bad, it just is. How it is used can be good or bad. How Hollywood and gaming companies used it in the past was good, how George R Martin used it for the Song of Ice and Fire series was good, how Tolkien used it was amazing. How modern Hollywood and AAA gaming companies use it is racist, sexist and exclusive. Dungeons and Dragons is a shadow of what it once was after all of its scandals. OGL debaacle where WotC/Hasbro tried to scam players, content creators and third party publishers, sending the Pinkertons after a youtuber and his wife, its own executives saying the game will be better with less white men playing it, making it racist and exclusive. Trying to say drow and orcs are racist caricatures back in 2020 when they published an article called "Dungeons and Dragons and Diversity" only to make orcs racist caricatures in the artwork of their upcoming new Player's Handbook by making them all mexicans, making them massive hypocrites. It only represents reality in melting pot cities like New York or LA. Move away from big cities, go back in time when travel was super slow and everything and everywhere becomes a lot less diverse because it would take too long to go anywhere and there wouldn't be any reason to leave where you came from. Even in the modern day geographic regions have huge majorities and minorities, and neither is good nor bad for existing, but it becomes less like reality to have a bunch of ethnicities represented in regions where they aren't from in a time period where moving somewhere would take months to even years to get there with no guarantee of finding work, making a living or so on. Diversity does nothing to make medieval settings realistic at all. In fact, the most realistic ones would have little to no diversity, save for a story of, say, an invading force where the invaders are foreigners of whatever the setting happens to be, and the invaders would just as likely be seen as the villains.

@dustinliam7878 23 дня назад

@@Alfonso88279 Agreed, diversity in and of itself does indeed accomplish a lot! In fact, there's a dearth of cannibal representation in media, we should rectify that. Also, incestuous parent-child couplings, there's too few in movies, add more. And beastiality enjoyers are never shown! Add them too! I'm sick of seeing necrophiliacs painted as monsters, diversify the attitude by displaying them in a positive light. Clearly, diversity is what matters, but your virtue signaling never stopped to consider true representation, comrade; I need you to step your game up, and speak for those without a public voice.

@everinghall8622 22 дня назад

@@Alfonso88279 Until you have a movie set in ancient Greece or some ish

@_elifilen 22 дня назад

And to be honest unforced diversity in gaming or in entertainment in general is more successful than forced diversity.

@Issarus 23 дня назад

You clearly don’t understand what issue people are actually taking. You brush off the entire issue as “people get mad that video games characters don’t look like them” when this is just not the issue. You talk about how people are unhappy with Assassins Creed Shadows because of Yasuke, and then point out that most video game protagonists are white as if that’s a counterpoint to the Yasuke backlash. News flash, nobody is upset that the samurai isn’t white. Your idea that people who are unhappy about the state of things have “low cognitive flexibility” and are just upset because they’re “surprised” to see non white men in video games is laughable as well and just shows that you either do not understand what people are upset about, or you are arguing in bad faith. Also, the whole “what you see happening isn’t real, you’re just experiencing a cognitive fallacy and have probably been brainwashed by society” thing is textbook gaslighting. So yea I guess maybe you are just arguing in bad faith. Finally, your “meditation” at the end of the video is absolute cringe and not doing anything to dispel the idea that your ideology is a cult.

@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

I’m not about not trying something bc it seems “cringe” but thank you for the feedback. Re: cognitive fallacies- they are a thing. I have a psychology education. I know exactly what gaslighting ACTUALLY is- pointing out that our brains do shortcuts that aren’t always true is not gaslighting, that’s just a simple fact of human brains. Finally if you don’t like content like this, leaving novels of comments like this one is not helping YT serve you what you want to see

@tuongpham7609 24 дня назад

Diversity is good. Forced diversity that pushes a political message/agenda isn’t.

@Sunnysideanyway 22 дня назад

Every good story has a message. That boils down to whether or not you *agree* with the message.

@Cloud_Seeker 22 дня назад

@@Sunnysideanyway Now that is extremely slimy of you. Trying to equate any message and story to a political agenda.

@Sunnysideanyway 22 дня назад

@@Cloud_Seeker With how culturally divisive the west is, more and more things are becoming political and controversial.

@Cloud_Seeker 22 дня назад

@@Sunnysideanyway And yet. All messages are not political. It is you and people like you that makes everything political when it doesn't have to be.

@Sunnysideanyway 22 дня назад

@@Cloud_Seeker What, in your opinion, makes a piece of media political?

@TheMegazonyx 24 дня назад

Why dosnt it work then? Source: Every single piece of entertainment

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

Provide me a specific source that actively supports your point. “Every single piece of entertainment” is too broad and cannot be adequately quantified.

@TheMegazonyx 24 дня назад

@@emmjaygames Dr.Who, every single game SBI had their hands in, comic books, LOTR, almost everything that comes out of Netflix, Disney, Warner Brothers, and the list goes on and on... Edit: STAR WARS! I forgot about Star Wars! Want me to keep going? So, now, tell me, give me sources where you got a point, ill wait...

@StevenZephyc 23 дня назад

@@emmjaygames Ghostbuster 2016 Horizon Forbidden West Saints row remake Suicide squad kill the justice league Terminator Genesys World of Warcraft Dungeon and Dragon Warhammer 40K Star wars sequel triology and the acolyte

@Alfonso88279 23 дня назад

It always works, that's why it has been done since greek times. That diversity is even on the Bible, how many characters are from one place or the other, how many characters are implied they don't fit because of their origins. That's how stories are done, that's basic storytelling for human race forever.

@Alfonso88279 23 дня назад

@@StevenZephyc Diverstiy is not the problem in any of those. Bad writing is. I can tell you ten times those that have great writing and a lot of diversity. And not just games. Pretending diversity is bad on stories is the stupidest thing anyone has ever said, flat earthers included.

@ShepardCommander 24 дня назад

I have no issue with diversity in stories. In fact I apreciate diversity. My problem is usually when identity is stolen for the sake of representation. Think of an african man dressed as an indian, that's how I feel about Yasuke in the new AC game.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

Yasuke actually existed tho in the era and area that the game is set in so that’s kinda of as far from “identity stolen for representation” as you can get.

@uzunaruMelonness 24 дня назад

I know that the game is basically a fantasy based on those times. But for a historical aspect, details of said game is off. If a samurai is wearing armor in public, expect a showing in form of a parade, guarding, or just a person seeking to kill people in those times. (Normally, Samurai would keep armor stashed while in rest or peace times) Iga is not a small village. Trade center is more likely. Shinobi can be Samurai. Shinobi is a job. Samurai the title. Hattori Hanzo for example. He's of the Iga. (Yes, he exist in that time period) Many of modern media show him as a classic ninja. But he wears samurai armor. Yasuke is a retainer (his actual job) with a Samurai title. Oda viewed him as a curiosity and kept him close. At those times, the Japanese would stare because Yasuke is black. This is an oddity to them. And the closest interpretation is circus entertainer. (The Japanese did not see that many outsiders) A Shinobi's job is to gather and return with the information. Infiltration and scouting is their role. Combat is considered the last option. (disadvantageous without armor) Assassinations are a part of their job. Disrupting the enemy and stealing intel are more common. Wearing blue is the correct uniform color for them. This blends with the night sky more than black.

@ShepardCommander 24 дня назад

@@emmjaygames not in the capacity of how he is portrayed in the game, and it still begs the question of why would they do that? Like what if I made a game with a great degree of historical accuracy about african kings, where part of the appeal is the culture and diversity of such a place except you played as a John Boyes, an American african king who is white? Well the difference between that and Yasuke is that Boyes actually served as an african king while Yasuke was never a samurai outside of fictional media in japan. There is an expectation of character culture and origin based on the previous titles, Japan is the only country they did this too, not even Valhalla got this treatment. At the very least you also play as a japanese woman, probably because they couldnt find any historical black woman in japan to play Yasuke's female counterpart.

@ShepardCommander 24 дня назад

@@uzunaruMelonness I believe there were also no kunoichi outside of fictional media. I also believe shinobi were more akin to british sabouteurs and less "smoke bombs and katana wielders shrouded in black robes" that we see in media, including japanese media. Not that some didn't do that, but more like those weren't the traditional ninja.

@uzunaruMelonness 24 дня назад

@@ShepardCommander True. That they are sabouteurs. And most Shinobi just dress in civilian or disguised clothing. The beggar, humble servant, or field worker could be a Shinobi in disguise.

@Odesai1 23 дня назад

they had a million samurai to chose from - they pick the one random black guy just to tick boxes

@Yepper1234 23 дня назад

It's like booking a trip to Paris and they fly you to Tokyo. It's a great city, but not where you were planning on going.

@yummybites5786 22 дня назад

Paris is a dumpster fire now. It's a great example for this though. One is trash, the other isn't.

@hefttefla4372 22 дня назад

@@yummybites5786Doesn't matter, not where I intended to go. You just replaced someone else's opinion with your own to prove how they are wrong instead of assuming the metaphor means something different

@bc9554 22 дня назад

Funny you picked those two places. Paris was an extremely popular tourist destination for Japanese. *Was*

@Yepper1234 18 дней назад

@@bc9554 I learned something new. Thanks

@juggernaut1990 24 дня назад

Hello, although I disagree radically with everything you say and stand for, I can concede that this was a well fundamented video, and youre clearly educated and smart. However, I believe that your strong political bias and in group preferences stop you from seeing the objective truth about many of the topics discussed. Id love to adress the first one first, and point out that the "gamer" statistics were grossly misrepresented. You and I both know that many of these statistics are grossly skewed in order to misrepresent the percentage of women "gamers". This is done through mobile or "cellphone" "gaming"... I think that any person, with even the most cursory knowledge of the term and its implications, can agree that a housewife playing candy crush cannot seriously be considered a gamer (if not for any of the other multiple reasons, primarily because of the huge differences between markets and products) I really hope you reply, however, even if you dont, im glad to be what appears to be, the first "like" on a video you clearly worked hard on.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

Let me start out by saying that I appreciate that despite disagreeing with me, you chose to actively engage and explain your point and not sink to the type of 'troll comments' that are all too common on the internet. For that, gotta give you props and for sticking with the video despite it challenging your assumptions! I would like to briefly address the concept of a "strong political bias" here. I didn't really talk about DEI etc in anything but the cultural context that it exists in, nor did I talk about who I am voting for in 2024. I have a formal education in the science of bias, which I am applying here, and a vested interest in human rights/equity as a whole which i don't see as political-- rather, it comes from my values that apply to my life and choices beyond what we consider as "politics". on your point re: the market research gamer stats-- I am of the opinion that any game is a "game" and anyone who plays games is a "gamer", but that's my own personal opinion/definition. I think it is a bit shortsighted however to dismiss mobile gaming entirely as a genre-- given how widespread it is (especially outside of the US) and how sophisticated smart phones have become, it does a disservice to ignore mobile gaming bc it ISN'T just match3s like Candy Crush-- even if mobile gaming isn't my first choice. Would I play Assassin's Creed on my smartphone? No. I have a gaming PC and several consoles, and my smartphone purposefully is not a gaming tool but a communication, social media, and reading one (fun fact- I actually don't play ANY mobile games aside from Pokemon Go to motivate me to touch grass.) But someone in Asia, etc might, a younger individual in the US might, and there's a whole market of gaming accessories to make that easier and many games we would expect to play on a console or PC now available through Apple Arcade and similar services. It would be really bad practice statistically to cut out that demo in this context. Thanks for sharing and for the like, hopefully this is not too much of a novel of a response! I do intend to make some videos parsing out the mobile gaming attitudes I see both pro and con so I could go on about this forever. :P

@KT-pv3kl 24 дня назад

@@emmjaygames you talk about "equity" instead of equality and mention DEI and you don't even see that this IS the very strong political bias that the OP is talking about. The fact that you don't see it as political tells a LOT about how deep your own bias actually runs. You don't even have to tell anyone who you are voting for in 2024 most people with eyes to see and ears to hear can tell who you are going for as soon as you open your mouth. Seriously, name a single person who isn't a leftist who talks about equity and DEI in a positive manner at all.... The study OP mentions doesn't ignore mobile gaming. The data shows that the overwhelming majority of "female gamers" in the statistic do in fact play candy crush and the likes on their phones and aren't some asian kids playing Minecraft or Genshin Impact on said mobile devices. You are making up strawmen without even knowing what you are arguing against.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

@@KT-pv3kl provide me with your source for this study and then we can talk about it. I can also hold personal opinions without them being a political statement. If you choose to see them as that, then that is your choice! I’ve even admitted several potential areas of my own biases both in this video and responses so I am aware of where they rest. However, I chose to use a bajillion academic resources to inform my conclusion here as you can see in my cited sources, as opposed to just “this is my opinion, trust me bro.”

@KT-pv3kl 24 дня назад

@@emmjaygames lady your entire social media feed is filled with political statements and virtue signaling. the fact that you don't understand that "personal" opinions can also be political statements makes me question your education to be honest. your motte and bailey tactics don't work here.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

@@KT-pv3kl so no source?

@silvermknight 23 дня назад

Yasuke definitely feels forced on this one. The whole point of Assassin's Creed protagonists is that they were obscured from history for one reason or another, so we aren't even sure they didn't actually exist. That's the beauty of the series. The fact that they are also part of the indigenous population also helps with that. It would be pretty easy for everyone to know who murdered all these people if it was a big, black guy who did it. Pretty easy to track him down. Spider-Man 2 is another one that I didn't really enjoy because im not a big fan of Miles Morales, and he pretty much took over the story. There is no pathos for having Miles fight the Green Goblin because there is no history there. If all Miles gets is Peter's hand me downs then it gives the feeling like I am playing a replacement rather than a unique character.

@Nugnugnug 22 дня назад

Diversity as in diversity or diversity as in "everyone and everywhere looks and acts like Los Angeles?"

@Grimm_Flame 22 дня назад

God i fucking hope we don't get anymore of the 2nd one.

@tetraquark2402 24 дня назад

Diversity sucks: It does not make a good story/plot and irritates people because they can see it is forced and fake. Calling the fans toxic ignores the fact they are the one's that made it successful in the first place. It's just dishonest to turn on them when in fact you are the one that fucked it up.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

How is it “forced and fake” to have: - stories about women and nonbinary/genderqueer individuals in fantasy games(women and nonbinary folks exist, play games, and like fantasy.) - stories about BIPOC that ACTUALLY EXISTED in the era and setting they are in (Yasuke) or that draw heavily from someone’s personal and cultural experience (Tales of Kenzera)? (Again, BIPOC people existed in Sengoku Era of Japan and exist now and play + make games)

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

@@jgetscensored7837 there is a second protagonist in the game. Please tell me a sentence you know about them. I will wait.

@connornewman75 24 дня назад

@emmjaygames well the black samurai is a bit forced considering we have no historic evidence that he WAS indeed a samurai. Was he a retainer of oda nobunaga? Absolutely, we have a historical record of that. But we dont have a historical record of yasuke being an actual samurai. Pedantic? Sure, its a video game. But i'd like to posit this as to why else it feels forced. In AC1 we got a white guy in jerusalem, lil weird. But considering the crusades happened, not a huge deal. Every assasin afterwards has been a native, ezio was an italian in italy, connor was a native american innorth america, edward was an englishman iirc (privateers and all that), the greek AC had greeks. The egyptian AC had egyptian, the norce AC had the norse. And now they're rage baiting by choosing the one non japanese guy for japan. And while yes the other protag is a japanese woman, that doesnt act a s a panacea to the clear rage bait they put out. Its obvious at this point that controversy is being used as an advertisement and its annoying to alot of people who grew up playing these games.

@tetraquark2402 24 дня назад

@@emmjaygames It is because there is no market for it else it would stand on it's own merits and people would be buying it. Instead what we get is leaching off the success of something already established like a parasite.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

@@tetraquark2402 and yet somehow there was a ton of excitement about this game and still is.

@hirotakasugi4891 22 дня назад

No, you don't get to "portray" my culture and insert stuff into it that doesn't exist just for "diversity".

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

There are some valid complaints around iconography etc but you know what might help that? More cultural consultation, not less. There’s no “pushing Yasuke into” anything tho. He existed. He’s been portrayed a LOT in Japanese media. Why is it such a problem for ubi to portray him in exactly the same way as a lot of the media he is in?

@Yepper1234 23 дня назад

Everyone is entitled to their opinion which I love. However, if you want to make money selling a game you have to sell what your audience wants. They don't have drag shows at boxing matches, because their audience did not pay to watch that. Same with games.

@lonewolfxmohaa 23 дня назад

Video games were diverse long before a bunch of people that pretend to be gamers started acting like they are doing anything but annoying people by putting detail on shit no one cares about.

@_Azurael_ 23 дня назад

Diversity in itself is fine. Forced Diversity is the problem everyone is talking about. By "forced" I meam the change of existing characters or the inclusion of characters even if it defies lore and logic. Like the new AC Creed not having an Asian male protagonist (they could still include Yasuke mind you, just not as the main character of the Japonese AC) Also there is an issue with Gaslighting. "Games need more diversity", "This game has the First Female Protagonist" and stuff like that. Games always had diversity! No ammount of lies will ever change that... Not to mention most RPGs just let you pick how you look regardless... The only diference is that now its just forced and focused in marketing to the point were the game's gameplay and overhall quality are clearly secondary.

@jakubekch.3621 23 дня назад

people rarely have a problem with diversity itself. People have a problem with shit stories , and most creatives trying to make diverse stuff sadly are just not good enough to pull off a story that feels organic and proper.

@MTRBR-mp7wj 22 дня назад

Then why did Ubi apologize to the Japanese?

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

Incorrectly used iconography. Which, ironically, would be caught with more cultural consultation not less

@remmy72 24 дня назад

Forced female Main characters are boring and predictable.

@emmjaygames 24 дня назад

@@remmy72 provide me a specific example of a “forced female main character.”

@tuongpham7609 24 дня назад

@@emmjaygamesThe acolyte. Everyone is tired of the forced girl boss that don’t need no man. We’ve had plenty of strong women in every media. You don’t need to be a bitchy girl boss to be empowered.

@Alfonso88279 23 дня назад

Dude, bad written CHARACTERS are boring and predictable. You are biased against women. Open your eyes and scrutinize the people who put those ideas in your mind.

@remmy72 22 дня назад

@@emmjaygames Just off the top of my head go watch arc the animated series. Cringe worthy story but at least we checked off the Boxes. Female lead. Check. Non-white Check. Lesbian Check. paleontologist check... Now for a show about dinosaurs.... which one of those boxes should be the most important....? hmm?----------- Yet they spend the first half the show about how tough her life is (Being a paleontologist is like being a roofer in July apparently). Her wife dies and she can't go on anymore. Mean while you can tell something going to happen between her and the asian female hero by the end of the first trailer. Its boring. ITs predictable. It happens all the time these days.

@Miku-2020 24 дня назад

currently at 6 minute mark. fan of AC series wants more of the series and repeat the story telling methods, by introducing historically named character is stepping away from that, and it's brawl, game also is advertised as historical, and when wrongly depicted causes lot more scrutiny. there'd be lot less Noise about issue if Instead of historically named person, they' have had historically unknown person same as previous games, that character can be anything, if dark skinned and in relative xenophobic society it could be interesting story aspect which affects gameplay, maybe negative as that might be tedious but that's puzzle for Designer to solve. 12minute mark, part of issue is that instead of new franchises we change old franchises we change old stories to fit new perspective, while this has happened historically too even with bibble and people who read old bible are called satanists, today Visual Media is far stronger and less interpretation romm that written and vocal media have. and previously these changed overtime, today it can be perceived happening very very fast. and you are fightining against Nostalgia and Status Quo Bias, and today world of information people get heard and when they don't even as a crowd they get narcistic injury (note you don't have to be narcist to get injured in this manner). didn't really engage with mediation session, being neurodivergent metacognitive and fully lucid dreamer this kind of mediation hasn't produced change, only frustration the longer i mediate as in the retrospective I see it as waste of time which i could've used on more concrete relaxation methods from sleeping, being shower, enjoying good food, having fun etc. breathing exercise is only one i do when i notice I am going haywire in my head, as I my chest fills with air relieving tension and lowering heartbeat. Haven't never done PNS test but few other yes, I think I'd score highly in PNS but I still consider myself as creative person, but with issues translating my imagination into reality. here's what I say on topic of -- does wokeness affect Video games -- my answer is that I perceive Change sake of Change not because betternment of story, does more diversity make story objectively better? not anymore than meaning objectivity has to stories. both side of the arguments are connected by same thing when fixed would reduce polarization on topics, and that's marketing. if Diversity wasn't or lack of Diversity weren't marketable item, there'd be less focus on it and less noise about it.

@paulgottliebglatzhaar4288 22 дня назад

There is a lot of critisim here, this is always such a heated debate. Anyways, here's some more critisim. - Inclusivity unequals diversity. A room with five black dudes is as divers as a room with five white dudes. There is much more important stuff in regards of the determination if something is diverse or not. And divers in what context. I would argue that, for example, the Kingdom Come Game is going to make the gaming space more divers than the next Dragon Age, although the cast is the literal anti-thesis of everything considered that. Because the historic accuracy, for an RPG, is unmatched, which is way more refreshing than a generic fanatasy RPG with lady knights. -The Black Samurai: I, and honestly we all, don't know if this is going to be an inclusive nightmare or a japanese dreamland, because all we have is some PR Clips. People have to chill out! Nontheless, I think Ubi made a mistake. AC main characters, to this point, were all fictional, but typical for their setting. This is what made AC sucessfull, immersion in a historical setting but creative freedom for the story. The new AC can have problems with both, just by choosing Yasuke. And yes, Yasuke is not a stereotypical samurai (cool), but he is a stereotypical represantion of what forced inclusivity feels like (lame). And the only reason he just feels like that is because they back him, and only him, up with historical facts. People will hate this, they already do. And if Ubi will make AC Hexe, as reaction or not, a classical entry, the AC series will suffer of loosing even more trust in the sincerity of the franchise. -Americanization of media: This is my biggest problem. Becoming america-centric, in pursuit of not being euro-centric. And this is what a lot of inclusivity feels like for me. Middle-Earth but invaded by America, Arielle but in America, feudal Japan, but the MC is western (black this time), so you don't have to understand this alien place, just connect with him instead. And this wouldn't be such aproblem if A): America wouldn't blast their media across the globe to everybody, everywhere and B): it wouldn't happen under the impression of diversity and inclusivity. Because this opens the question: Divers and inclusive in a global sense or in an america intern sense, which could make this, funnily enough, a form of insensitive cultural appropriation. Thats my 3 cents.

@whitemagus2000 23 дня назад

I'd be happy to play an assasin's creed game where you play as a warrior of the Zulu empire. They were known to be so fast that the British had to consider them to be mounted on horses at all times. Pretty awesome and you don't have to make up crazy crap and pass it off as real history, like black Cleopatra, black Ann Boleyn, black Issac Newton, or a black samurai (since token black guy wasn't a legal job, he technically was a palace guard, but only ever fought one dual, and lost).

@silvermknight 23 дня назад

An Assassin's Creed set during the Zulu Empire would be pretty cool, actually. How about one set during Cortez's arrival in the New World? There are plenty of ways to get the diversity they want, but they just don't want to go that way.

@Donsposts 22 дня назад

12:45 but the game flopped and the studio got shutdown.

@MrNetrizhul 22 дня назад

I'm asian. I hate the fact this "diverse" stories only include black people just to fill quota. Even if there are asian it is mostly female asians ( which is racist imho). When did you last seen a show whose protagonist was male asian that DOESN'T set in asia or asian themed. I don't like diversity just for it. My fav superhero is Spawn who was a black dude. I wouldn't want him to be asian. I would fight to end for him be black forever. That's why I don't like fake spidermans like miles etc CREATE NEW, DON'T ALTER ALREADY LOVED THINGS.

@adaml5241 23 дня назад

Props for putting your opinion out there. Timing was also pretty poor; "Ghosts of Tsushima" will be what the new Ubisoft game will be compared side-to-side to. By all measures Sucker Punch absolutely nailed that title and it's setting and I personally have no desire to retread that ground. PS: I have no idea how this video came across by recommended feed but here I am!

@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

Yeah I do think it’s gonna be challenging for them coming in the heels of Ghost. That to me is way more of a reasonable critique- that the popularity of samurai media recently may have people a little burned out on it. I know I feel that way about zombie media, still. Thanks for watching! Appreciate ya for that and engaging with a thoughtful comment

@psommorr 22 дня назад

Excellent second half of the video, I'm anti corporate DEI, but I like how you brought in some psychology. I intentionally seek out videos I know I don't agree with, in order to hear them as a person. The issue I have is the first half with the statistics of gamers in that you brought up the stats for who is playing video games and how often they are, but the key piece is what genre they play. Because from statistics that I've seen, guys mostly play shooters and other highly competitive games. Girls usually have played match three types of games. At the time few women have played highly competitive games. Not to day they don't but it's statistically unlikely to see them play those types of games. The other part is looking into the evolution of the culture. Look at the 2003 S.W.A.T. movie. They had a diverse racial cast, but the original 70's show had mostly white men from what I remember, I watched a handful of episodes as a kid. But people didn't trash on S.W.A.T. due to a diverse cast. They trashed on it because it was a bad movie. Samuel L. Jackson essentially made Hondo black. And the 2017 reboot ran with that. I can bring up a few race changes that went unnoticed, but the key is pre-2014, it didn't matter if you created a diverse character. If you did great, you did great. If not, then your work was critiqued. That was a huge generalization of pre-2014 culture, but that's what I noticed. I believe that if AC Shadows came out before diversity was corporatized, then everyone would love Yaskue right off the bat. Because it would have been a new idea. But now in AAA games there's a lot of issues with diversity being almost a requirement to avoid scrutiny from gaming journalists.

@VertFirstQuestion 23 дня назад

Diversity in media is great, i grew up reading Russian,Arabian and European novels with all kinds of diverse stories and characters. Problem with discussing diversity in gaming/stories nowadays is the Tribalism. There are bad actors on both sides of the argument and people protect those bad actors because they agree with their world views. Dropping the comment so hopefully your channel becomes more successful and you do not fall victim to tribalism in the future and realize some people dislike token ugly characters in games because it is literally the same type of fetishization as what those characters supposedly exist to prevent. And some people do not want a bunch of white people developing a game about Japan with a black MC yet they do not even care enough to respect the black character or japanese culture which clearly indicates it is yet another fetishization and not diversity. As for the hair color, looks good but can go brighter IMO.

@phamduy1906 22 дня назад

"diverse story" That's the keyword. I DO believed African people have many great stories to tell us (They are the oldest so kinda expected). But stop shoveling a random black character in the 14th centuries European or a black character in Chinese mythology and call it a day. If you do so, I'll call you lazy, not diversed

@nicholasgogel5606 22 дня назад

Diversity in story telling is good but it’s not the ‘diversity’ we talk about in politics that actively makes complex & diverse story telling/characters… you can have a homogenized cast of characters that is extremely diverse and thought provoking on niche issues without using stereotypes/token inclusion just for brownie points. Trying to shoe horn a lesson or outside (personal) narrative into something that doesn’t focus on/need it for the plot/setting, or isn’t an improvement to tropes/ideas already being played with in the storytelling by its inclusion often (if not always) falls flat & feels forced. Creative story telling is best when it’s concise & focused and without clutter. You must allow & encourage your player the ability to dissociate from reality, come to their own conclusions/assumptions/theories, and let them have fun (often just for fun’s sake) in the setting created.

@user-nq2oz8tf2l 22 дня назад

Diversity is fine if it makes sense in the setting. A ranger, a warrior, and a wizard who are wise and middle aged are tasked to save the world? Those dynamics work. A young teenage girl, her token handicapped friend and sacrificial simp guardian? Not so much. Heroes throughout history tend to be the same because that's the template needed to achieve great things.

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

Is it though? I know more than one person who despises the traditional “heroes journey” format, and yet we still can (and should) have stories for those people too.

@voidedsteel6611 22 дня назад

indie games are more diverse then this triple A DEI Sweet baby inc slop. its all the same shit and then they wonder why people dont play the game the studio is trying to sell. its because weve already seen it and done it 20+ times already.

@mr.present6591 23 дня назад

Hey please don't let the backslash get to hard on you, can understand that that kind of backlash can get to someones head really fast! Hate can be alot on the Internet... Diversity can be a really good thing, but how the entertainment industry does it right now is a catastrophy... Just making a character black does accomplish nothing, it is honestly kinda racist, "because we need theese kind of people also in our game!" like wtf... The industry just makes characters diverse but forgets to make acutal characters, thats just bad and because of that everyone gets just exhausted of diversity in games....

@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

So I actually wanted to get into this but that would have made the video a million years long. Yes, there can definitely be a “tokenism” vibe to some media representations BUT I don’t think that is the majority and I think a lot of people just see *any diverse character at all* and say they’re “just there to fill a quota” when really the point of the character is flying over their heads bc they have distilled that character down to just “not white, straight, cis man.” I appreciate your kind words. I knew this would be a pretty wild comment section. Sadly, the people who hate seeing stuff like this are ensuring they see more of it by leaving novel long hate comments 😛

@kaleviHekonen9527 22 дня назад

Diversity can be good but I hate it when people treat it like it should be a moral responsibility for the devs. Especially when it appears tokenistic and usually means somekind of appeal to one-kind of left-wing identity politics.

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

I want to make it very clear that I am not pushing it as a moral responsibility for devs. Devs can make whatever they want! But I do think gamers react poorly to people just *existing* a lot rn and unfortunately that has been true in this comment section as well.

@isaacc3234 22 дня назад

The problem with modern games is that too many women work on them. This removes the masculinity from the game, and thereby it makes it gay. There's a reason Red Dead 2 (made mostly by men) is so much better than whatever Ubisoft is pushing put (mostly made by women/feminine men).

@rosverlegaspo6752 23 дня назад

Diversity isn't really the problem there. What is done in the name of it is the problem. There are good ways in going about it and there are bad ways in going about it. Most of the diversity in gaming though is just executed very very poorly.

@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

Can you give me an example of “good” and “bad” ways to execute on it?

@rosverlegaspo6752 22 дня назад

@@emmjaygames I'm not going to give games for example but specifically choose Disney films to compare and contrast. I think it still shows my point. Good example: The Princess and the Frog. Bad example: The Little Mermaid live action remake. Now... Why? It all comes to what "representation" is. Representation to me is more than just skin color, the shape of your eyes, or what is between your legs. It is about the life, the experience. What it is to be one. To be a woman, to be black, to be Asian, etc. With The Princess and the Frog, the makers really do their best to represent what it is to be Black, especially a Black woman. The life of one, the obstacles one would experience, the values that one would cherish. Things that makes one a black woman, not a just woman who happen to have a dark skin, but a person who lives and experience being a black woman. To go along with that, all the details are made to support this. Music, voodoo, social structure, even the food. They have taken the German story and make it Black. The Little Mermaid remake on the other hand. They take what was a White character with White experiences in a White culture, and just replace her with a Black woman. Aside from the skin, nothing there represents anything about being Black. Not the life, not the culture, not the music, not the food, not anything! But somehow it represents Blacks because her skin is dark now. Compare this to how it is done with white characters. Take another Disney example: Frozen. It is Norwegian inspired and look at what they did. The art, the fashion, the landscapes, the architecture, the mythology and creatures. A Norwegian can look at it and see all these Norwegian stuff. But with Blacks? There is no effort like that at all. Just have some dark skin dude and call it a day. Everything is White, or with something like AC: Japanese, with only the skin color doing all the "representation." Might as well make a Snow White remake, a story about a white girl in a white world, but just make her a person of color and still name her Snow White living in a white world... wait. To me it is just lazy and even dismissive. Like, there is nothing special about being Black. It is just skin color. Other races have their music, their culture, their fashions, their martial arts, their architecture, their magic systems, their swords, their everything. You need to deal with all of these to represent them in any sufficient way. But with Blacks; it apparently requires only a dark skin to fully represent them. This is specially a bigger issue in gaming where everything is just crammed in. Not just about being Black, but also about being gay and being a woman and being fat and being ugly and and being disabled and so on. That is just too much to tackle at once and especially to come off as natural, or not feel like tokenism, while also keeping the narrative and game play good and fun. Now add historical element and quickly, diversity and representation just comes off as ridiculous and appear like they are being ridiculed instead. That was really long and I mostly really talk about Black representation, mainly because Black representation is the most lazily done out of all. There is a lot of things more I want to say, but his is already long. I hope that you can understand my take in this issue.

@Timberwolftrass 23 дня назад

First time viewer here: Your video and audio quality are a little rough and could use some improvement, that being said though, you make very good and very compelling arguments that I agree with. The minor technical issues aside, this was a very good video and argument that you can and should be proud of. I certainly enjoyed it. Well done.

@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

Thanks! Yeah this was an odd video- I filmed it partially on a dying camera (it started just randomly freezing and dropping quality) and I had my AC on for the first time filming which def created a lot of sound issues to try and fix in post too. I appreciate the feedback and am hoping my next few will be much better now that I have a better assessment of what I need to do for it to be better quality out the gate (which will also make my edits easier and faster, all pros in my book!)

@Timberwolftrass 23 дня назад

@@emmjaygames well i'll be keeping a look out. this was a good video and you should definitely make more.

@iroxudont 22 дня назад

No.

@jennatals8533 22 дня назад

good message, bet most ppl didnt finish the vid and just came to dislike it lol

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

1000%. It’s okay, I knew I was running that risk. Same people leave novels of comments and hate watch parts of the video over and over (thinking RU-vidrs can’t see that in our stats, too lol) and then wonder why it is being pushed to more people and why they see more of it on their feed.

@almalone3282 23 дня назад

while i disagree with almost everything here i admit this is a well made video.

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

I appreciate that even tho you disagree you were able to engage with this and left a pleasant comment :)

@Alfonso88279 23 дня назад

Sadly, those who agree with you see these ideas as obvious, natural, unavoidable. So most of us will not look for videos like this. But the people who hate these ideas and just want to see themselves in the mirror, they will go hard against videos like this one. They will look for them. Don't feel bad for the general reaction. Just keep saying the truth, it amounts to something: These people are looking like asses in the comments. And that will be more obvious as time pass. p.d: I am so sad about the comments, it's like someone brainwashed those people, like they have never read a book, played a game or watched a movie.

@emmjaygames 23 дня назад

Thank you! I knew this comment section would be a trash fire. Yep, it’s actually a perfect example of the extreme politicization and lack of media literacy I am talking about in the video- these are folks who actually feel that someone else’s story being told “replaces” theirs and thus they react… well… like this. Appreciate the positive comment, glad this is making it not just to folks who will be angy about it 😂

@Alfonso88279 23 дня назад

@@emmjaygames Yeah, I am a psychologist and I am studying cult behavior (as a hobby I mean, I am just reading books and mailing professors, I said my profession to kind of justify my interest on it) and one thing that is very telling is how incredibly similar their points are. They all repeat the exact same stuff, even with the same words.

@bc9554 22 дня назад

@@emmjaygames The existence of blackwashing white characters in media remakes is direct proof their stories are being replaced.

@vincentmartin9667 21 день назад

@@emmjaygames The comments could be worse, I am curious what in the 'Held for review' section. Excuse me for ninja'ing in here, but I found this video early in my feed and knew I would want to come back and see how comment section would turn out. This was a better video than I thought I would be first, shame about all the BD comments and dislikes, that probably why you had others awknowledging that before disagree with you. It nice to find a video like this that back up their opinions with facts and research, and some of the more thoughtful comments, is something you can't find on many of this channels that promote this sort of world view. Well I will wish you luck and am curious what you'll make in the future.

@emmjaygames 20 дней назад

@@vincentmartin9667 believe it or not, there have only been a few held for review lol. I’ve removed a couple more for use of slurs that eked through but overall this is just… how it is lol. Kinda knew I would be getting this, but felt this was an important piece to put out regardless. I try to take as rational an approach to this stuff as I can so I appreciate you pointing that out! Obviously I have opinions, that’s just the way of the world, but I try to examine stuff like this through the academic lens. It’s really the only way to defuse some of the extremely politicized rhetoric on this topic which is always my goal when talking representation, diversity, and how that plays out in stories and in our brains! Thanks for the nice comment! Appreciated amidst all the angy bois up in here lol

@user-uk8vp9jm8c 22 дня назад

as someone who got brainwashed into joining the whole "anti woke" movement some years ago, it's my pleasure to boost this type of content. many young men are sucked into really bad places via alt right propaganda, and diverse stories in gaming are probably the only thing that can reach them and make them snap out of it. good essay!

@emmjaygames 22 дня назад

It’s wild honestly. “Anti woke” is a cult, similar to how extreme “hippy commune” type spaces can be cult-y. I will say I very much understand how hard it is to bust out of that so good on you! My experience was entirely the opposite direction but similar in that any factual correction or new information led to… well, the kind of behavior we see on the internet every day from the “anti-woke” crowd. So I get it! But also, it’s exhausting lol Thanks for engaging and leaving such a nice comment, it is appreciated

@user-uk8vp9jm8c 22 дня назад

@@emmjaygames culty is spot on dude, the talking heads of the anti-woke portray themselves as rationalists, like they use ""logic" and ""facts"" instead of feelings, you probably heard that a lot. And it's really hard for a weak minded young dude to see through the fallacies when the speaker is very confident and uses funny memes to spread their message. Finding out I enjoyed some movies and games blasted for being inclusive, I sorta got out of my shell and befriended some trans and non-binary people, just to see whether they were actually brainwashed monsters and crazies. Turned out they were people like anyone else is. Had a real crisis after that, dude. Like, I felt my whole toxic persona collapse into dust. I wanna do better nowadays. I hope you make more stuff in the same vein! This stuff needs to be heard. Even when they come to argue with you, it's a nice step, cuz they hear the message. Most of the negativity in your comments comes from guys who are completely enthralled by the grifters, so don't take their words to heart. They'll get better one day and vids like yours are a valuable tool for getting them out.

@emmjaygames 21 день назад

@@user-uk8vp9jm8c”turned out they were people just like everyone else” that’s really the key. I truly think some of the wild stuff that gets thrown out there as part of the “anti woke” stuff is just fear that more people will discover that honestly. We are all just humans trying to live our best lives. I’m glad for you that you have been able to do that and want that for more people, not less 🥰

@user-uk8vp9jm8c 21 день назад

@@emmjaygames you hit the nail on the head there. The old adage "travel broadens the mind" really does work. I don't even wanna say what I thought about people of color, especially from muslim countries for most of my life. When a certain (happy) mistake sent me to a developing islamic majority country for half a year, I literally thought I'd get beheaded, robbed, burnt alive and stuff. The kindness and amazing culture I was actually met with stunned me. It was the opposite of what I was told. I was accepted way quicker than we accept them into our society and found amazing friends and beauty out there. While racism and homophobia are quite different things, the same mechanisms worked for me when I first went to an lgbtq+ event. Fear and hate were met with friendship and acceptance , crushing everything I thought I knew. The grifters are deathly afraid of this, they wanna keep folks away from reality. There's really nothing more inhumane than denying young people the ability to know the full beauty of humanity in all of its diverse shapes and forms.